Seething

I definitely think that people are less forgiving (here and well, people in general) when it comes to overweight people. People that have never been overweight tend to place the blame squarely on the person, rather than considering that maybe some outside factors have to do with it. As far as they're concerned, all it takes to get fat is eat a lot and get no exercise. But I have yet to meet a single "big" person who got that way simply by planting their ass on the couch and eating non-stop. I'm a big guy myself, but I've been this way my entire life. Both my parents are fat and lazy, so you can only imagine what standards they set for me as a child. But if a thin person were to look at me not knowing my past, their instinct is to think I spend my Friday nights crying into a bucket of chicken about why I look the way I do. Ignorance makes it easier for people to go about their lives, instead of having to stop and actually think there's a person underneath their appearance.

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